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Some Great Plants for Attracting Butterflies in Central North Carolina

Enchanted Learning Butterfly

Butterfly Gardening Planning Shows at how to plan a garden to attract, retain, and encourage butterfly populations.

Garden Path Butterfly Gardening Butterflies, with their colorful costumes and their frilly aerobatics are beautiful and entertaining visitors to our gardens. On this page you will find tips and suggestions on attracting these lovely creatures to your garden.

How to make butterfly gardens By Stephanie Bailey, Extension Specialist
University of Kentucky Department of Entomology

Taina’s Butterfly Page This site is dedicated to butterflies and the beauty and grace they bring to this world. With each butterfly the world is a bit more hopeful place to live in.

Windows on Nature Butterfly Pictures

Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardening

TheButterflySite.com!
Visit us frequently for the most complete and current butterfly information on the Internet. We offer 12 pages packed full of information on all sorts of Butterfly topics. Every page has an article written by entomologist Randi Jones as well as links to sites all over the web for even more information on butterflies!

Austin Butterfly Forum

Butterflies found in North Carolina

Butterflies of North America Distribution Maps Photos, species accounts, and combined maps for butterflies occurring in the conterminous U.S. and northern Mexico.

Texas Monarch Page

The Lepidoptera Listserver

Lepidoptera Usenet Group

Monarch Butterfly Mailing List

Monarch Watch A great site for all you need to know about the Monarch.

The Florida Monarch Butterfly Website

Journey North: Monarch Migration Updates

North American Butterfly Association

The Butterfly WebSite

Gopher List Collated list of English names for North American Butterflies

North American Butterfly Monitoring Project The National Biological Service updates visitors on the testing and evaluation of monitoring protocols for butterflies

Shetland Entomological Group Butterflies in Shetland page, which gives a brief natural history of several native species.

Butterflies

Checklist of SE Arizona Butterflies

Butterflies of North Dakota

Butterflies of the United Stats A listing by state

Butterfly Plant list Zone 5

The Butterfly Guide

Chuck's Butterfly Page Chuck as many butterfly images that he took himself
Philip Greenspun's Butterfly Pictures

Belgian Migrating Lepidoptera Survey

Gordons Butterflies and Moths Neat website, containing general information on butterflies and moths.

Butterflies of the Maltese Islands Informative and good looking pages on the butterflies of Malta.

Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera This is the place to go for more finding the entomology resource you need. Most of the University Butterfly sites are listed here

Dutch Butterflies These pages offer you information on all Dutch, Belian and Luxembourg butterflies

Butterflies and Moths Of the Shetland Islands

Butterflies at BugWatch

The Butterfly Zone How to make butterfly gardens Entfacts University of Kentucky

Butterfly Plants A list for North America

Butterfly diversity in Trinidad OU research project

Lepidoptera at University of Colorado Museum

Lepidoptera catalogue at UMMZ

A Species List University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Lepidoptera holdings at US NMNH

The Butterfly WebSite providing our guests with the most complete information on butterfly gardening, farming, ecology and education. Articles, education, photo gallery, chat room and more.

Butterflies of Andorra

Butterflies of Singapore

Moths of the U.S.

Nova Scotia Butterfly Checklist

Texas Gulf Coast Butterflies

Annual Review of Entomology

Conservation Ecology A peer-reviewed, scientific journal.

Cultural Entomology Digest Developing extensive entomological content.

Collated List of English Names for North American Butterflies

Entomological Society of Ontario Newsletter

Journal of the Venezuelan Entomological Society

North American Butterfly Association Publications

Bill's Lepidoptera Photos This is a compilation of my favorite butterfly and moth photos that I have taken over the years. I use a Nikon FG with a 50 mm lens and screw-on filter size close-up lenses. (usually +4 magnification.)

Butterfly and Moth Photos

Butterfly Images by Philip Greenspun All of these were taken at Butterfly World in Pompano Beach, Florida with a Nikon 8008 camera, Nikon 60mm macro lens, off-camera SB-24 flash, and off-camera SB-23 flash.

Stinging Caterpillar Photos

Cecropia Moth Life Cycle

Chuck's Butterfly Page This page has photos of butterflies and moths. There are photos of pinned insects and photos are of live butterflies and moths from egg to adult that I have raised over the last few years.

Desert Butterflies

Captain's European Butterflies Guide

Alexi Belik: Russian Butterflies & Beetles

Butterflies of Ireland

Butterflies and Moths of Israel

Caterpillar Host Plants

Caterpillars of Australia

Images

Japanese Butterfly Photos

Lepidoptera and other life forms This "project" has started as my desire to scan images of Finnish lepidoptera and make them available on the web.

Virtual Museum of Catalonian Butterflies


Attracting Buterflies Butterflies are always a welcome addition to any garden. By choosing the right plants you will be encouraging them to visit a while longer as well as return in the future. This site has a great set of tables showing what plants you will need, how much sun & water the plant will need. Brougth to you by Garden Country